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Brian Gaze
11 October 2024 21:33:42
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tallyho_83
12 October 2024 23:06:20
@ +252z on 18z GFS shows something brewing in the gulf and heading toward NW Florida once again: - May not verify of course but something to keep an eye on once again:

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picturesareme
19 October 2024 18:09:33
Hurricane Oscar what an embarrassing hurricane for the NHC 😂
Just a few hours ago it was (apparently) a disturbance with a 20% chance of developing. Then they sent hurricane recon plane to investigate finding it was already a cat 1 hurricane.
Gandalf The White
19 October 2024 20:30:35

Hurricane Oscar what an embarrassing hurricane for the NHC 😂
Just a few hours ago it was (apparently) a disturbance with a 20% chance of developing. Then they sent hurricane recon plane to investigate finding it was already a cat 1 hurricane.

Originally Posted by: picturesareme 


Why is it embarrassing?  The earlier forecast was based on the latest available data. Are you suggesting they should guess?
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20 October 2024 06:21:18

Why is it embarrassing?  The earlier forecast was based on the latest available data. Are you suggesting they should guess?

Originally Posted by: Gandalf The White 


The expectation is that with satellite data you should know about hurricane formation the instant it happens, if not before; against which, as we've seen already this summer, current models were developed for an era in which SSTs were not as elevated as they are now.
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Gandalf The White
20 October 2024 09:32:49

The expectation is that with satellite data you should know about hurricane formation the instant it happens, if not before; against which, as we've seen already this summer, current models were developed for an era in which SSTs were not as elevated as they are now.

Originally Posted by: DEW 


Well, since Oscar developed very fast obviously the satellite data wasn’t sufficiently up to date either.

As for the computer models, that’s not correct: the models are based on physics, so they should deal with warmer oceans - and as we have seen with other storms this season, they do.
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20 October 2024 09:47:39

Well, since Oscar developed very fast obviously the satellite data wasn’t sufficiently up to date either.

As for the computer models, that’s not correct: the models are based on physics, so they should deal with warmer oceans - and as we have seen with other storms this season, they do.

Originally Posted by: Gandalf The White 


As I understand it, the models are modified and improved with feedback from actual situations, which is why predictions of British weather are more accurate if there's a westerly dominance rather than, say, northerly or easterly. As SSTs in the Caribbean and W Atlantic have been unprecedently high, I would expect that a similar feedback process will lead to more accurate hurricane forecasts in the future.

The physics doesn't change, but our understanding of its implications does.
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27 October 2024 22:20:02
Indian authorities arranged the evacuation of up to a million people in advance of cyclone Dana a couple of days ago, but (I hope)  this was a storm surge precaution as it only appears to have reached cat 1.
Meanwhile hurricane Kirsty in the east Pacific, far from land, blew up into a cat 5 and died again almost as quickly.
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31 October 2024 07:22:42
Typhoon Kong-rey bashes Taiwan, the largest storm to hit island since 1996
(Cat 3 on landfall)

https://edition.cnn.com/2024/10/31/asia/taiwan-typhoon-kong-rey-landfall-intl-hnk/index.html 
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tallyho_83
02 November 2024 23:01:51
GFS has picked up on something brewing in the Gulf? Yet Again? 
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03 November 2024 07:46:15

GFS has picked up on something brewing in the Gulf? Yet Again? 
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Originally Posted by: tallyho_83 


90% chance in 7 days according to NHC, which is as close to certainty as you get from them.

Meanwhile TS Patty has cropped up by the Azores and is forecast to menace N Portugal as a TD in a few days.
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picturesareme
03 November 2024 14:08:54

90% chance in 7 days according to NHC, which is as close to certainty as you get from them.

Meanwhile TS Patty has cropped up by the Azores and is forecast to menace N Portugal as a TD in a few days.

Originally Posted by: DEW 


Looking at the satellite it already looks like a tropical storm has developed. We'll find out later when the plane goes out to investigate.
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04 November 2024 08:32:26
Now PTC 18 (Potential Tropical Cyclone) with track forecast as TS to develop shortly (Rafael), and thence to become a hurricane over the W end of Cuba on Wed, before dying out in the Gulf as it comes up against strong wind shear.

EDIT: now officially named Rafael, no change in forecast
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08 November 2024 09:31:46
Rafael now going round in circles in the middle of the Gulf of Mexico, not affecting land after that bash at W Cuba.
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The Beast from the East
17 November 2024 10:29:49
If this was America, it would be headline news
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